Dear MySQL users,
MySQL Server 5.7.7-rc (Release Candidate) is a new version of the
world's most popular open source database. This is the first release
candidate of MySQL 5.7.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-development-cycle/en/development-milestone-releases.html
As with any other pre-production release, caution should be taken when
installing on production level systems or systems with critical data.
Note that 5.7.7-rc includes all features in MySQL 5.6.
For information on installing MySQL 5.7.7-rc on new servers, please see
the MySQL installation documentation at
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/installing.html
MySQL Server 5.7.7-rc is available in source and binary form for a number of
platforms from the "Development Releases" selection of our download
pages at
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/
MySQL Server 5.7.7-rc is also available from our repository for Linux
platforms, go here for details:
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/repo/
Windows packages are now available via the new Installer for Windows
Installer or .ZIP (no-install) packages for more advanced needs. It
should be noted that the previous MSI packaging is no longer available
and the point and click configuration wizards and all MySQL products
are now available in the unified Installer for Windows:
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/installer/
5.7.7-rc also comes with a web installer as an alternative to the full
installer.
The web installer doesn't come bundled with any actual products
and instead relies on download-on-demand to fetch only the
products you choose to install. This makes the initial download
much smaller but increases install time as the individual products
will need to be downloaded.
We welcome and appreciate your feedback, bug reports, bug fixes,
patches, etc.:
http://bugs.mysql.com/report.php
The following section lists the changes in MySQL 5.7.7-rc since the
previous milestone.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.7/en/news-5-7-7.html
Enjoy!
- Bjorn Munch, for MySQL Release Engineering
=============================================================================Changes in MySQL 5.7.7 (2015-04-08, Release Candidate)
Note
This is a release candidate, for use at your own risk.
Significant development changes take place in milestone
releases and you may encounter compatibility issues, such as
data format changes that require attention in addition to the
usual procedure of running mysql_upgrade. For example, you
may find it necessary to dump your data with mysqldump before
the upgrade and reload it afterward.
Installation Notes
* Installers for more binary distribution types provide secure
deployment. This includes installers for SLES, Solaris, OS X,
FreeBSD, and Linux generic binary compressed tar distributions.
These installers create a single 'root'@'localhost' account
without other root or anonymous-user accounts, and do not
create a test database accessible by any user. (Some
installers may provide options to create additional accounts or
a test database, but only if selected by the user.) Installers
that run interactively and can ask the installing user for the
initial root password do so. Noninteractive installers generate
a random root password that the administrator can use to
connect to the server the first time and choose a new password.
Optimizer Notes
* It is now possible to provide hints to the optimizer by
including /*+ ... */ comments following the SELECT,
INSERT, REPLACE, UPDATE, or DELETE keyword of SQL
statements. Such statements can also be used with
EXPLAIN. Examples:
SELECT /*+ NO_RANGE_OPTIMIZATION(t3 PRIMARY, f2_idx) */ f1
FROM t3 WHERE f1 > 30 AND f1 < 33;
SELECT /*+ BKA(t1, t2) */ * FROM t1 INNER JOIN t2 WHERE ...;
SELECT /*+ NO_ICP(t1) */ * FROM t1 WHERE ...;
Packaging Notes
* Several binary distribution types have been made more modular,
to split out test components into a separate distribution
file. This reduces the size of the main download. In addition
to the previously available test/debug distributions already
available for Windows Zip archives, RPM packages, and Debian
packages, the current release makes separate test distributions
available for Solaris PKG files, and Solaris, FreeBSD, generic
binary Linux and OS X compressed tar packages. These separate
distributions have "test" in the distribution file name. They
contain tests, while the debug binaries are still in the main
distributions.
Generally, use of a test distribution requires that the main
distribution is also installed. Additionally, for Solaris, the
main and test distributions must be for the same version of
MySQL.
Performance Schema Notes
* These Performance Schema changes have been made:
+ The MySQL sys schema is now installed by default
during data directory installation. This is a set of
objects that provides convenient access to data
collected by the Performance Schema.
For upgrades, mysql_upgrade installs the sys schema
if it is not installed, and upgrades it to the
current version otherwise. To enable this behavior
to be suppressed, mysql_upgrade now has a
--skip-sys-schema option.
For sys schema usage instructions, see
https://github.com/MarkLeith/mysql-sys .
+ The events_statements_history and
events_transactions_history consumers now are
enabled by default.
References: See also Bug #71207, Bug #18376132.
Security Notes
* The mysql_native_password and sha256_password built-in
authentication plugins have been modified to support
proxy users, which they did not previously. To enable
proxy capabilities for these plugins, enable the
check_proxy_users system variable. Then, to control which
individual plugins support proxy users, enable either or
both of the mysql_native_password_proxy_users and
sha256_password_proxy_users system variables. For
information about user proxying, see Proxy Users
(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/proxy-users.html)
.
* The C client library now attempts to establish an SSL
connection by default whenever SSL is supported by and
enabled on the server. If an SSL connection cannot be
established, the client library falls back to an
unencrypted connection. To suppress the attempt at using
an unencrypted connection, specify the --ssl=0 option.
See SSL Command Options
(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/ssl-options.html)
.
This change affects these standard MySQL client programs:
mysql, mysql_config_editor, mysql_install_db,
mysql_plugin, mysql_secure_installation, mysql_upgrade,
mysqladmin, mysqlbinlog, mysqlcheck, mysqldump,
mysqlimport, mysqlshow, mysqlslap, and mysqltest. It will
also affect new releases of MySQL Connectors that are
based on the C client library: Connector/C,
Connector/C++, and Connector/ODBC.
Spatial Data Support
* The ST_Buffer(), ST_Difference(), ST_Distance(),
ST_Intersection(), ST_IsSimple(), ST_SymDifference(), and
ST_Union() functions have been reimplemented to use the
functionality available in Boost.Geometry. The functions
may raise an exception for geometrically invalid argument
values when the previous implementation may not have. The
functions that take two geometry arguments support all
geometry type combinations.
In addition, ST_Buffer() now takes up to three optional
arguments to specify point, join, and end strategies that
influence buffer computation. Values for strategy
arguments are produced using the new ST_Buffer_Strategy()
function. See Spatial Operator Functions
(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/spatial-operator-functions.html).
Functionality Added or Changed
* Important Change; InnoDB: The following changes were made
to InnoDB configuration parameter default values:
+ The innodb_file_format default value was changed to
Barracuda. The previous default value was Antelope.
This change allows tables to use Compressed
(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/glossary.html#glos_compressed_row_format)
or Dynamic
(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/glossary.html#glos_dynamic_row_format)
row formats.
+ The innodb_large_prefix default value was changed to
ON. The previous default was OFF. When
innodb_file_format is set to Barracuda,
innodb_large_prefix=ON allows index key prefixes
longer than 767 bytes (up to 3072 bytes) for tables
that use a Compressed
(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/glossary.html#glos_compressed_row_format)
or Dynamic
(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/glossary.html#glos_dynamic_row_format)
row format.
+ The innodb_strict_mode default value was changed to
ON. The previous default was OFF. When
innodb_strict_mode is enabled, InnoDB raises error
conditions in certain cases, rather than issuing a
warning and processing the specified statement
(perhaps with unintended behavior).
The configuration parameter default changes described
above may affect replication and mysqldump operations.
Consider the following recommendations when using the new
default settings:
+ When replicating or replaying mysqldump data from
older MySQL versions to MySQL 5.7.7 or higher,
consider setting innodb_strict_mode to OFF to avoid
errors. Target settings should not be more strict
than source settings.
+ When replicating from MySQL 5.7.7 or higher to older
slaves, consider setting
innodb_file_format=Barracuda and
innodb_large_prefix=ON on the slave so that the
target and source have the same settings.
The following file format related configuration
parameters are deprecated and will be removed in a future
release:
+ innodb_file_format
+ innodb_file_format_check
+ innodb_file_format_max
+ innodb_large_prefix
These four configuration parameters were provided for
creating tables compatible with earlier versions of
InnoDB in MySQL 5.1. Now that MySQL 5.1 has reached the
end of its product lifecycle, the parameters are no
longer required. Also, the file format scheme, by which
named file formats would be introduced as new features
were added, was not used after introduction of the
Barracuda file format. InnoDB formats have changed since
the introduction of the Barracuda file format, but new
named file formats have not been added.
If non-default values are used for any of the four
deprecated parameters, InnoDB prints a deprecation and
removal warning to the server error log. The same warning
is issued to the client if the parameters are set
dynamically using a SET statement.
* Important Change; InnoDB: The
innodb_buffer_pool_dump_at_shutdown and
innodb_buffer_pool_load_at_startup configuration options
are now enabled by default. With this change, a
percentage of most-recently-used buffer pool pages is
dumped at server shutdown and restored at server startup.
This behavior helps avoid a lengthy buffer pool warmup
period after restarting the server, particularly for
instances with large buffer pools. The
innodb_buffer_pool_dump_pct option defines the percentage
of buffer pool pages that are dumped. The default value
for innodb_buffer_pool_dump_pct is reduced from 100 to
25.
These configuration option default value changes
represent a change in behaviour at server shutdown and
startup. If you prefer the previous default values, it is
recommended that you configure the options explicitly in
your MySQL configuration file after upgrading to MySQL
5.7.7 or later, and before restarting the server.
For more information, see Preloading the InnoDB Buffer
Pool for Faster Restart
(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/innodb-preload-buffer-pool.html).
* Important Change; InnoDB: The innodb_checksum_algorithm
default value is now crc32. The previous default setting
was innodb. This change also means that
innodb_checksums=ON is now equivalent to
innodb_checksum_algorithm=crc32 instead of
innodb_checksum_algorithm=innodb.
* InnoDB: The InnoDB MeCab full-text parser plugin now
supports the eucjpms, cp932, and utf8mb4 character sets.
(Bug #20534096)
* InnoDB: To address a scalability bottleneck for some
workloads where LOCK_grant is locked in read-mode,
LOCK_grant locks are now partitioned. Read lock requests
on LOCK_grant now acquire one of multiple LOCK_grant
partitions. Write locks must acquire all partitions.
To address another scalability bottleneck, the server no
longer performs unnecessary lock acquisitions when
creating interal temporary tables.
References: See also Bug #72829, Bug #20023139.
* Replication: The defaults of some replication related
variables have been modified. The following changes have
been made:
+ binlog_gtid_simple_recovery=TRUE
+ binlog-format=ROW
+ binlog_error_action=ABORT_SERVER
+ sync_binlog=1
+ slave_net_timeout=60
Additionally, the session scope of gtid_executed has been
deprecated. The global scope of gtid_executed remains
supported.
* Replication: Replication is now compatible with XA
transactions. An XA transaction in PREPARED state is now
persistent until an explicit XA COMMIT or XA ROLLBACK
statement is issued. In prior versions, an XA transaction
that was in PREPARED state would be rolled back on clean
server shutdown or client disconnect. Similarly, an XA
transaction that was in PREPARED state would still exist
in PREPARED state in case the server was shutdown
abnormally and then started again, but the contents of
the transaction could not be written to the binary log.
As part of this feature a new event,
XA_prepare_log_event, has been added to track XA
transactions in the PREPARED state and enable them to be
replicated. Whether an XA transaction commits or is
rolled back is recorded separately in the binary log,
possibly interleaving with other transactions, to
finalize the XA transaction two step binary logging
process.
References: See also Bug #12161, Bug #11745231.
* Performance Schema stage event instruments that provide
statement progress information now are enabled and timed
by default. The affected instruments are those displayed
by this statement:
SELECT * FROM performance_schema.setup_instruments WHERE
ENABLED='YES' AND NAME LIKE "stage/%";
(Bug #20685859)
* The XID column of Performance Schema transaction tables
(for example, events_transactions_current) has been split
into three columns to permit access to the component
parts of XID values. The new columns are XID_FORMAT_ID,
XID_GTRID, and XID_BQUAL. (Bug #18320361)
* Previously, view definitions were not permitted to
contain derived tables (subqueries) in the FROM clause.
This restriction has now been lifted.
Previously, derived tables (subqueries) or views in the
FROM clause could not be merged into the outer query if
they contained subqueries in the SELECT list. Instead,
they were processed using materialization. This
restriction has now been lifted so that queries
previously executed using materialization can be executed
more quickly using merging. (Bug #12755, Bug #11745276,
Bug #60417, Bug #11865600)
* In MySQL 5.7.6, the NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER was deprecated.
(It is preferable to create MySQL accounts with CREATE
USER rather than GRANT.) Now the default SQL mode
includes NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER and assignments to sql_mode
that change the NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER mode state produce a
warning, except assignments that set sql_mode to DEFAULT.
NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER will be removed in a future MySQL
release, at which point its effect will be enabled at all
times (GRANT will not create accounts).
Bugs Fixed
* InnoDB: FLUSH TABLE ... FOR EXPORT, which is an
unsupported operation for tables residing in a general
tablespace, failed to report a warning message. (Bug
#20631305)
* InnoDB: The MeCab parser accessed the byte beyond the
length of the document resulting in an Invalid read of
size 1 Valgrind error. Document allocation size is now
length + 1 byte. (Bug #20589432)
* InnoDB: A debug assertion should not be raised for static
mutexes. (Bug #20588765)
* InnoDB: Tablespace and file path data updates to internal
system tables during startup caused undo log corruption.
The updates were made before calling
truncate::fixup_tables(), which does not expect to
encounter changed pages. (Bug #20534616)
* InnoDB: A TRUNCATE TABLE operation on a temporary table
raised an assertion. The temporary table object was
incompletely constructed when reloaded from SYS_TABLES.
(Bug #20527363, Bug #72080)
* InnoDB: Return value 16 when calling
pthread_mutex_destroy() warnings were returned during
atexit() processing. (Bug #20513522)
* InnoDB: A debug variable used to modify the first page of
a tablespace raised an assertion when set to a
nonexistent tablespace ID. (Bug #20511314, Bug #75833)
* InnoDB: A buffer pool load operation raised an assertion
when attempting to read pages that were placed out of
tablespace bounds by a preceding TRUNCATE TABLE
operation. (Bug #20474542)
* InnoDB: Removal of a foreign key object from the data
dictionary cache during error handling caused the server
to exit. (Bug #20442523)
* InnoDB: An assertion was raised during a redo log resize
operation that was triggered by a file size mismatch
encountered during recovery. Code introduced in MySQL
5.6.8 to automatically handle redo log file size
mismatches failed to ensure that the buffer pool was
clean prior to recreating redo log files. (Bug #20425387)
* InnoDB: An InnoDB memcached extra_col_value[] array was
freed without checking the allocated flag, causing a
server exit. (Bug #20400373)
* InnoDB: A DML operation performed while a flushing
operation was in progress raised a memcached-related
assertion. (Bug #20390277)
* InnoDB: A CHECK TABLE operation on a table with a spatial
index raised an assertion. The
row_sel_sec_rec_is_for_clust_rec function failed to
handle an externally stored field. (Bug #20311344)
* InnoDB: Estimates that were too low for the size of merge
chunks in the result sorting algorithm caused a server
exit. (Bug #20049521)
* InnoDB: An ALTER TABLE ... RENAME operation raised an
invalid assertion. The assertion code used an incorrect
transaction object. (Bug #18523599)
References: This bug is a regression of Bug #17447500.
* InnoDB: Running mysql_upgrade after a binary upgrade to
MySQL 5.7.6 caused a server exit on a system with
tablespace data files that were created in MySQL 5.1 or
earlier. The fix for Bug #17345513 in MySQL 5.7.6 failed
to address all instances of garbage FIL_PAGE_TYPE values
in tablespace data files created in MySQL 5.1 or earlier.
With this patch, the manual process described in the
MySQL 5.7.6 release notes entry for Bug #17345513 for
repairing non-index pages that contain invalid
FIL_PAGE_TYPE values is no longer necessary.
The patch for Bug #17345513 also failed to recompute page
checksums after resetting invalid FIL_PAGE_TYPE values.
Upon restarting the server, a failure would occur due to
an apparent page corruption. The page checksum is now
recomputed before the new FIL_PAGE_TYPE value is written
to the data file. (Bug #76262, Bug #20691930)
* InnoDB: For full-text searches, the optimizer could
choose an index that does not produce correct relevancy
rankings. (Bug #74686, Bug #19950568)
* Partitioning: The MySQL Server unnecessarily requested
the default number of partitions for a table whenever it
opened a partitioned table. This was unnecessary since
the server already has this information about the table
to be opened. Now the server requests this information
only when needed---that is, only if it is creating or
altering a partitioned table. (Bug #76007, Bug #20585753)
* Partitioning: A number of ALTER TABLE statements that
attempted to add partitions, columns, or indexes to a
partitioned table while a write lock was in effect for
this table were not handled correctly. (Bug #74451, Bug
#74478, Bug #74491, Bug #74560, Bug #74746, Bug #74841,
Bug #74860, Bug #74869, Bug #19856162, Bug #19864284, Bug
#19873019, Bug #19891663, Bug #19990815, Bug #20026661,
Bug #20031966, Bug #20033503, Bug #19827845)
* Partitioning: Executing an ALTER TABLE on a partitioned
table on which a write lock was in effect could cause
subsequent SQL statements on this table to fail. (Bug
#74288, Bug #74634, Bug #19784790, Bug #19918805)
References: See also Bug #19856162, Bug #74451.
* Replication: When using multi-source replication on a
multi-threaded slave (where slave_parallel_workers is
greater than 1), and slave_transaction_retries was
greater than 1, the slave would fail to open the relay
log file. This was due to the slave worker incorrectly
constructing the relay log file path for its replication
channel. (Bug #20448413)
* Replication: When the automatic_sp_privileges variable is
set, the server automatically grants the EXECUTE and
ALTER ROUTINE privileges to the creator of a stored
routine, if the user does not already have these
privileges. When a privileged user creates a procedure
with DEFINER as a non privileged user on a master, the
current user is considered to be a privileged user and
the mysql.procs_priv table is not updated. When such a
statement was replicated to slave, the non-privileged
DEFINER was considered as the current user on the slave
and privileges were being allocated. This caused a
difference in the privileges that were being allocated on
the master and the slave. The fix ensures that creater of
the stored routine is added to the binary log, and the
slave now checks first if the user exists before granting
privileges. To maintain compatibility with previous
versions, the DEFINER is used when the INVOKER is not
available. As part of this fix, anonymous users can be
used to replicate from master to slave. (Bug #20049894)
* Replication: After issuing RESET SLAVE, the
RECEIVED_TRANSACTION_SET field in the
performance_schema.replication_connection_status table
showed incorrect values. This could cause an incorrect
string value error. (Bug #18751585)
* Replication: When gtid_mode=ON and slave_net_timeout was
set to a low value, the slave I/O thread could appear to
hang. This was due to the slave heartbeat not being sent
regularly enough when the dump thread found many events
that could be skipped. The fix ensures that the heartbeat
is sent correctly in such a situation. (Bug #74607, Bug
#19975697)
* The query rewrite framework introduced in MySQL 5.7.6
produced excesssive mutex acquisition that caused
performance degradation under some conditions. (Bug
#20785598)
* CMake failed to detect the OpenSSL version properly for
recent versions of OpenSSL (the format of the version
string changed). (Bug #20756770)
* GRANT and ALTER USER could clear the password-expiration
flag for operations not related to resetting the
password. (Bug #20634154)
* SHOW CREATE USER did not work for clients older than
MySQL 5.7. (Bug #20627890)
* For upgrades from MySQL 5.6 to 5.7 that involve moving
mysql.user table passwords from the Password column to
the authentication_string column, mysql_upgrade neglected
to handle rows with an empty plugin value and a pre-4.1
password hash. (Bug #20614545)
* For table-modifying statements, the parser could
dereference the parse tree without checking for
out-of-memory conditions or null pointers. (Bug
#20607407)
* The deprecated IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD syntax is supported
only for CREATE USER and GRANT, but ALTER USER failed to
reject it. ALTER USER now produces a syntax error. (Bug
#20600865)
* mysql_stmt_prepare() could leak memory allocated to
metadata. (Bug #20598261)
* With InnoDB as the default temporary table storage
engine, InnoDB sometimes made incorrect assumptions about
temporary table key part lengths. (Bug #20590162)
* Selecting from the Performance Schema global_variables
table resulted in a sprurious warning about the
sql_log_bin system variable. (Bug #20575529)
* Debian packages were missing some dependencies. (Bug
#20561621)
* For the embedded server, proper deprecation warning were
not produced for SHOW VARIABLES and SHOW STATUS
statements that included a WHERE clause. (Bug #20559828)
* A server exit could be caused by a query that contained a
HAVING clause, which itself contained an IN() subquery
predicate, where the subquery referenced a column of the
query. (Bug #20558891)
* A subquery that contained a user-defined variable could
cause an assertion to be raised. (Bug #20554585)
* In MySQL 5.7.6, the PASSWORD() function was deprecated,
but no warning was produced when it was invoked.
Similarly, the old_passwords system variable was
deprecated, but no warning was produced when it was set.
(Bug #20545464)
* The server could exit if a client using the cleartext
authentication plugin attempted to connect with an empty
password. (Bug #20537246)
* A query cache invalidation function used a too-small
buffer for holding encoded database names, which could
result in a server exit. (Bug #20528928)
* Valgrind warnings were silenced for display of
GTID-related debug information. (Bug #20506672)
* Some queries that had a derived table (subquery) in the
FROM clause could raise an assertion. (Bug #20487336)
* A table-modifying statement that followed a failed
table-modifying could result in a server exit. (Bug
#20460208)
* AddressSanitizer compilation errors were silenced. (Bug
#20459338, Bug #75740, Bug #20459363)
* Corrections were made for a number of code issues that
resulted in compiler warnings about array bounds,
possibly uninitialized variables, and variables being set
but not used. (Bug #20458574)
* Union queries over views containing ENUM or SET values
were not handled properly. (Bug #20456178)
* A natural left join between between a derived table and a
regular table, joined with another natural left join to
another regular table could cause a server exit. (Bug
#20455184)
* The optimizer could try to create an index of the wrong
data type on internal temporary tables. (Bug #20454833)
* A multiple-table UPDATE statement where one of the
specified tables was a derived table could cause a server
exit. (Bug #20454533)
* Mishandling of SRID values within ST_GeomFromGeoJSON()
could cause an assertion to be raised. (Bug #20416705)
* Under certain conditions, LCASE(), DECODE(), and ENCODE()
could have source and destination overlap in
memory-copying operations. (Bug #20315088, Bug #20554017)
* ST_Distance() could return incorrect results on 32-bit
platforms. (Bug #20259578)
* If a view was processed using the MERGE algorithm and had
an ORDER BY clause, an error occurred if the view was
queried using GROUP BY with the ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY SQL
mode enabled, unless the query selected all view columns.
(Bug #20210742)
* For debug builds, the optimizer could reject use of
LooseScan for eq_ref access joins and raise an assertion.
The optimizer now permits this combination for query
execution. (Bug #20119743)
* An out-of-range error in a subquery could raise an
assertion. (Bug #20035071)
* Ordering by a GROUP_CONCAT() result could cause a server
exit. (Bug #19880368, Bug #20730220)
* The server could exit due to an inappropriate full-text
lookup using a full-text predicate within a subquery that
contained an outer reference. (Bug #19828320)
* For a prepared statement with an ORDER BY that refers by
column number to a GROUP_CONCAT() expression that has an
outer reference, repeated statement execution could cause
a server exit. (Bug #19814337)
* For an materialized internal temporary table used with
semi-joins, the optimizer could add an index to it but
then use an inappropriate lookup strategy, causing a
server exit. (Bug #19695490)
* The optimizer could raise an assertion due to incorrectly
associating an incorrect field with a temporary table.
(Bug #19612819, Bug #20730129)
* Specifying --general_log_file= (with an empty value) at
server startup caused the server to fail and exit. (Bug
#19392264)
* Improper propagation of ORDER BY for a derived table or
view used within a multiple-table UPDATE could raise an
assertion. (Bug #18439019)
* The thd_proc_info() function defined in plugin.h was not
actually implemented. This has been changed to
set_thd_proc_info(). (Bug #11844974)
* mysql_install_db started mysqld in bootstrap mode, but
failed to wait for it to finish, causing premature
shutdown and the need for crash recovery. (Bug #76344,
Bug #20728488)
* Inappropriate -Werror options could appear in
mysql_config --cflags output. (Bug #76019, Bug #20590904)
* SET PASSWORD ... = PASSWORD('auth_string') syntax was to
be deprecated in MySQL 5.7.6, but was made illegal. This
syntax is now available again, but generates a warning
due to its deprecated status. These alternatives remain
available, the first of which now should be considered
the preferred form:
ALTER USER ... IDENTIFIED BY 'auth_string';
SET PASSWORD ... = 'auth_string';
(Bug #75927, Bug #20552143)
* The mysql client could exit prematurely when invoked with
the --quick option. (Bug #74182, Bug #19723750)
* CHECK TABLE ... FOR UPGRADE did not report temporal
columns that use the old datetime format (from before
MySQL 5.6.4). Consequently, mysql_upgrade did not know to
issue REPAIR TABLE statements to rebuild tables that
contain such columns, and subsequent ALTER TABLE
statements were unable to perform fast alterations to the
extent possible had the tables been repaired. Now, if the
avoid_temporal_upgrade system variable is disabled, CHECK
TABLE reports old temporal columns and REPAIR TABLE
upgrades tables from old temporal format to the new
format. (Bug #73008, Bug #18985579)
* With the offline_mode system variable enabled, the server
sometimes failed to accept connection from a user with
the SUPER privilege due to a race condition. (Bug #72760,
Bug #18842228)
* Information written to the slow query log for HANDLER ...
READ statements always had rows_sent and rows_examined
values of 0. (Bug #71892, Bug #18335504)
* mysql_real_connect() could close a file descriptor twice
if the server was not running. (Bug #69423, Bug
#19226740)
* Some key descriptors used by the optimizer were
uninitialized. Thanks to Sergei Glushchenko for the
patch. (Bug #68713, Bug #16512701)
* EXPLAIN could show incorrect filtered values for queries
that included a LIMIT clause. (Bug #34124, Bug #11747810)
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